“DO I INTIMIDATE?” started as an anthropology research question for my university classes. In a series of ten interviews, I asked elders and youths in my Yoruba Community how it felt to wear their traditional attire in public.
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Time, depending on who you are, where you are, and when you are, can mean many different things. Time is a unit of measure. Time is an experience. Time is saved. Time is spent. Time is wasted. Time is money. Time flies. Or it drags on. Time is a construct, a concept, a currency. Time is attention. Time is value. And for some, time is a medium.
Meganelizabeth Diamond moves us through her process for constructing images across a series of recent work.
Angeline Simon walks us through her practice in this reflection across time, research, and experimentation.
Much of our fall editorial program considers the environment and how its overlapping histories inform contemporary social and cultural contexts. Through conversations about the evolution of monster plants, equity in the outdoors, and the aesthetics of food and fat, these works explore the myriad of ways that we can still advocate for ourselves and the natural world.
Originally written in response to Angeline Simon’s exhibition at the Helen Christou Gallery. A longer version can be found on the University of Lethbridge website.
Photographer and mental health professional, Faisa Omer, welcomes Timiro Mohamed into her apartment and studio to share how she uses photography to tell socio-political stories, amplify voices in her community, and increase visibility of Muslim women in modest fashion.
Saelan Twerdy discusses the practice of Montreal-based photographer Jessica Eaton and the influence of Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint on this new body of work.
Jeff Bierk is a Toronto-based photographer and visual artist whose documentation of his closeknit group of friends has garnered national and international media attention (and consternation).